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Audio/Video Tools

Animoto - create a video by uploading images, or pulling images from a photosharing website, and adding your own music
One True Media - create a video montage by uploading your photos and videos and adding captions, effects, and music
Voice Thread - create a presentation with images or slides and add your own narration.
Jing - the free version of Camtasia screen capture software - create video tutorials by recording activity on your screen
Photo Story 3 - from Windows - create digital slideshows with special effects, soundtracks and voice narration.
Movie Maker - from Windows - create, edit, and share movies on your computer
Audacity - free audio editor and recorder
Vocaroo - record and send voice emails

Photo Editing and Effects and Graphics

Wordle - create word clouds from text that you provide
For more options, see Wordle Advanced
Ransomizr - create an "old-school" ransom note with images pulled from the One Letter Pool on Flickr
Big Huge Labs - do fun stuff with your digital photos
Create: motivational posters, movie posters, puzzles, press badges, trading cards, calendars, cubes, billboards, blog headers. Add: captions, frames
Image Chef - create icons, graphics, and banners with custom text, sometimes using your own images as well
Picnik - online photo editing tool corrects digital photos and provides lots of fun effects
ToonDoo - create your own cartoon strip
SketchUp - 3D Modeling application from Google - Pro available at no cost for educators
Picasa - Photo editing software from Google

Avatars

Become an M&M
Voki - create personalized speaking avatars

Web Publishing

Letter Pop - create newsletters, invitations, flyers, and photo collages to publish online or print
Tikatok - where kids write, illustrate, and publish their own stories
Glogster - "glog" refers to graphics or graphical blog - mix graphics, photos, videos, images and text into a glog
Wix - free Flash website builder - Export your Wix, or Wix will host your website for free
Mix Book - create photo books online for free, includes scrapbook editor
Scribd - social publishing site where you can share original writings and documents
Prezi - the zooming presentation software
Scrapblog - online scrapbooking software, create a digital scrapbook with one of many templates, or create engaging graphics for blogs or wikis
(can also export as jpg)

Free Image Resources

Pics4Learning - copyright friendly image library for teachers and students
FreeFoto - "largest collection of free photographs on the Internet"
Flickr Advanced Search - scroll to the bottom of the search screen and check the box for Creative Commons search
Library of Congress American Memory - links to free historical images, maps, and documents, etc.
Creative Commons - search services provided by other independent organizations for works which can be modified

Information Organization

Exploratree
ReadWriteThink: Student Materials
Literary Elements Map, Plot Diagram, Webbing Tool, Persuasion Map, Venn Diagrams, Notetaker, and more!

Collaboration

Book Goo - highlight and annotate your documents a virtual highlighter and pen, invite others to view and annotate.
Write Board - shareable, web-based text documents that let you save every edit, rollback to any version, and easily compare edits, collaboratively or solo
Zoho Creator (see an example of collaborative student work with ZohoCreator)

Social Bookmarking

Delicious - upload bookmarks to an account that can be accessed from any computer and shared with friends.

Online Surveys

Survey Monkey - Free basic subscription - limited to 100 responses per survey
Zoomerang

Other Personal Homepages

NetVibes
PageFlakes
My Yahoo

Misc Fun Things

Create your own logo- Google Style!

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